When I asked my parents what design should our gingerbread house have this year, they laughed and replied that one and a half stories with a tower.

And this is the result. A couple of hours for working on the design, an hour for baking and some more time for sticking it together with melted shugar, burning my hands, making the icing and decorating the house.

This is so pretty--and it definately makes my own gingerbread house look sorrier than it already is. (I tried to make a flat-roofed brownstone..right now it resembles a big box of Christmas-themed misery) lol but your house is so cool =]